Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others. Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma. The book delves into the possibilities and problems of transposing memory across borders and engages with debates over the unspeakability and politicization of trauma across public and private lines.

Préface
Examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s, as a way of understanding history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.

Auteur
Meng Xia teaches Chinese Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and has worked as senior lecturer at the Communication University of Zhejiang; researcher at Case Western Reserve University; 2023 research fellow, Worldmaking Project, Heidelberg University. She has published in peer-reviewed journals (see Additional Information), editorials, reviews and translations and presented her work internationally.

Texte du rabat

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.

Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others. Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma. The book delves into the possibilities and problems of transposing memory across borders and engages with debates over the unspeakability and politicization of trauma across public and private lines.

Contenu

1. Introduction
   Conceptualizing Memory
   Contemporary Migrancy
   
   2. Collective Memory in Negotiation
      Reconstructing Collective Memory in Adaptation: The Novel and the Film Youth
      Hero Myth: Memory from Literature and Public Discourse
   3. Marginal Memory in Contradiction
      Daughter of the River: The Illegitimate and the Excluded
      Gender Myth and Disciplined Sexuality in White Snake
   4. Transcultural Memory: Theories and Texts
      Reframing Transcultural Memory
      A Transborder View: Reading Chinese Migrant Novels
   5. Memory in Global Movement and Translation
      Memory of War and War of Memory: Ethics in Global Memory and Its Narrative
      Translating Memory: Language as Problems and Solutions
      Conclusion
      References